The habits of every animal are, at least in the eyes of man, constantly similar in all ages. But the habits, the clothes, the words and the dwelling of a prince, a banker, an artist, a bourgeois, a priest and a pauper, are wholly dissimilar and change at the will of civilizations.

Pity is woman's sweetest charm.

When we drink coffee, ideas march in like the army

Are not poets men who fulfill their hopes prematurely?

Love is the only way on which even the dim-witted reaches certain heights.

I believe in the incomprehensibility of God.

Reproach is usually honest, which is more than can be said of praise.